Emily Brontë (July 30, 1818 – December 19, 1848) 
was a British novelist and poet, best remembered for her one 
novel Wuthering Heights, an acknowledged classic of English 
literature.

Emily was born at Thornton in Yorkshire, the younger sister of 
Charlotte Brontë and the fifth of six children. In 1820, the 
family moved to Haworth, where Emily's father was perpetual 
curate, and it was in these surroundings that their literary 
talent flourished. In childhood, after the death of their mother, 
the three sisters and her brother Branwell created imaginary 
lands (Angria, Gondal, Gaaldine), which featured in stories they 
wrote. Little of Emily's work from this period survives, except 
for poems spoken by characters (The Brontës' Web of Childhood, 
Fannie Ratchford, 1941).

In 1838, Emily commenced work as a governess at Law Hill, near 
Halifax. Later, with her sister Charlotte, she attended a 
private school in Brussels.

It was the discovery of Emily's poetic talent by her family that 
led her and her sisters, Charlotte and Anne, to publish a 
joint collection of their poetry in 1846. Owing to the 
prejudices on female writers, all three used male pseudonyms, 
Emily's being "Ellis Bell".

She subsequently published her only novel, Wuthering Heights, 
in 1847. Although it received mixed reviews when it first came 
out, the book subsequently became an English literary classic.

Like her sisters, Emily's constitution had been weakened by 
their harsh life at home and at school. She died on December 
19, 1848 of tuberculosis, having caught a chill during the 
funeral of her brother in September, and was interred in the 
Church of St. Michael and All Angels Cemetery, Haworth, West 
Yorkshire, England.